zoopraxiscope

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n. An instrument developed by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870's, similar to the phenakistoscope. The instrument involves a disc that includes serial pictures being rotated in front of a light source, projecting them upon a screen, to exhibit the natural movements of animals and the like.

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He then put a series of these stop-motion images on a disk, span it in a machine he called the zoopraxiscope and from that, people say, invented motion pictures.

He was one of the great photographic thinkers, whose mind reached ahead from still photography towards the inevitable invention of the cinema, which he anticipated by constructing a gadget called a zoopraxiscope that could animate sequences of images to display mules kicking or nymphs dancing.

He also invented a popular device called a zoopraxiscope which allowed him to run the photographs in sequence at high speeds, creating the illusion of a moving image – an early indication of the power of cinema.

In addition to glass negatives, stereographs, proof prints and lantern slides, the exhibition also features Mr. Muybridge's only remaining zoopraxiscope, an apparatus he constructed in 1879 to project film.